Sir John Gielgud (1904-2000): actor of the century

There is a scene in Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson, 1981) in which Lindsay Anderson and John Gielgud stand at an upper-storey window of their Oxford college making supercilious comments on athletes engaged in a ritual race around the quadrangle below. It is a good moment to fix John Gielgud in the mind now that, at well over ninety-six, he has died.